In forests, past disturbances obscure warming impacts

Monday, March 5, 2012 - 14:31 in Earth & Climate

Past disturbances, such as logging, can obscure the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. So reports a new study. The article, exploring nitrogen dynamics, found that untangling climate impacts from other factors can be difficult, even when scientists have access to decades of data on a forest's environmental conditions.

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